Floor Cleaner Concentrate

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A concentrate for the daily pocha, and the number that decides whether it works is the dilution, so it goes first. The dose is one 20 ml cap in a 5 litre bucket, which is 1 part in 250. The cap is moulded with a line at 20 ml. That precision matters because the commonest failure in this category is not the product, it is the pour: a splash straight from the bottle is typically 50 to 60 ml, which is three times the dose, and three times the dose is exactly what leaves the sticky film people then complain about and blame on the cleaner. The opposite error is as common in a big house, where half a cap goes into a 15 litre bucket and cleans nothing. So the arithmetic in full. At 14 percent plant actives in the bottle diluted 1 in 250, the bucket is working at 560 ppm active surfactant (0.06 percent), and a litre gives 50 buckets. That is Rs 7.56 a bucket from the 500 ml, Rs 6.58 from the litre and Rs 5.79 from the 2 litre refill. And on germs, plainly: this is a cleaner and it makes no kill claim. The phenyl in most Indian homes is a phenolic disinfectant fluid to IS 1061, which BIS classifies into six grades by germicidal strength. That is a real disinfectant with a real number behind it. This is not one, it holds no such registration, and it does not pretend to. If somebody in the house has had a stomach infection, buy something registered as a disinfectant and use it at the strength on its own label.

• 100% Plant Surfactants (14.00% Active Matter): All three named: Coco/Lauryl glucoside 8.00 percent, caprylyl/capryl glucoside 4.00 percent, sodium cocoyl glutamate 2.00 percent. Zero petroleum LAS, zero ethoxylates, zero 1,4-dioxane.
• Near-Neutral pH & Stone Safety: Measured pH 7.80 in bottle and 7.40 in bucket at dose, at 27 C. Guaranteed safe on marble, kota stone, granite, and terrazzo (calcium carbonate surfaces permanently etched by acidic cleaners).
• Hard-Water Builder: Food-grade trisodium citrate dihydrate 1.50 percent, sequestering 300 to 600 ppm tap water hardness without synthetic EDTA, stopping white drying streaks.
• Child-Safety Bitterant: Denatonium benzoate at 10 ppm (among the most bitter substances known) makes a toddler or pet who tastes it spit it out. It deters swallowing; it does not prevent it, so keep the cap on.
• No Phenyl & No Pine Oil: Eliminates lingering synthetic hydrocarbons and airway irritants; no phenols, which cats clear poorly (they lack the liver enzyme that processes them).
• Exclusions: Zero chlorine bleach, zero phosphates, zero synthetic azo dyes, zero quaternary ammonium compounds (no BKC), zero MIT, CMIT, or BIT.
• Preservation: Phenoxyethanol 0.80 percent in concentrate, broad-spectrum and stable at neutral pH.
• Real Botanical Fragrance: Lemongrass oil 0.25 percent and vetiver root oil 0.10 percent; declared allergens quantified: citral 0.19 percent, geraniol <0.01 percent, limonene <0.01 percent. Working bucket concentration of citral is under 8 ppm (< 0.01 percent). Scent clears in 10 to 15 minutes, leaving a fresh, unmasked room.
• Readily Biodegradable: Exceeds 85 percent biodegradation in 28 days to IS 13933 / OECD 301B (modified Sturm test).